Ludwig Johann Joachim Friedrich BROCKMANN

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Name: Louis Brockmann

Event Type: burial

Birth Date: 13 Apr 1839

Death Date: 22 Dec 1919

Burial Date: 24 Dec 1919

Church Name: Zion

Church Location: Davenport, Iowa

Name: Louis F Brokmann

Age in 1910: 71

Birth Year: abt 1839

Birthplace: Germany

Home in 1910: Sheridan, Scott, Iowa

Street: Second & Davenport St

Race: White

Gender: Male

Immigration Year: 1866

Relation to Head of House: Head

Marital Status: Married

Spouse's Name: Lizzie Brokmann

Father's Birthplace: Germany

Mother's Birthplace: Germany

Native Tongue: German

Occupation: Own Income

Home Owned or Rented: Own

Home Free or Mortgaged: Free

Farm or House: House

Naturalization Status: Naturalized

Able to Read: Yes

Able to Write: Yes

Years Married: 45

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Louis F Brokmann 71

Lizzie Brokmann 74

Name: Johann Jochen Friedrich Ludwig Brockmann

Gender: Male

Baptism/Christening Date: 17 Apr 1839

Baptism/Christening Place: Barkow (AG. Plau), Mecklenburg-Schwrin, Germany

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Father's Name: Johann Joachim Friedrich Brockmann

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Mother's Name: Maria Dorothea Krohn

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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I01546-2

System Origin: Germany-EASy

Source Film Number: 68978

Reference Number: p40

Collection: Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898

Louis Brockmann has retired from active farming and now in his declining years is able to look back over a well spent life. His present residence is in Eldridge. His birthplace was Mecklenburg, Germany, his natal day being April 13, 1839, and his parents Frederick and Doris Brockmann. The father was in the Napoleonic wars, his service including the year 1813. He was one of the town officials and a prominent member and officer in the Lutheran church. He did not leave his native land and departed this life in 1858.

Mr. Brockmann secured his education in the schools of Germany and in course of time married. In 1866, some years after the death of his father, he came to America with his wife and mother. They landed upon the eastern coast and then after some consideration came to Davenport, Iowa. Mr. Brockmann looked about him for some means of livelihood and secured work as a farm laborer. As soon as opportunity presented he rented land in Butler township and prospered steadily, in 1880 finding himself in a position to buy a farm of one hundred and twenty acres near Long Grove. It was while living upon this property that his mother died. In 1895 Mr. Brockmann and his family removed to a farm in another part of Scott county. He added to his property by purchasing eighty acres in Princeton township but subsequently sold all his farming land and bought property in Eldridge, to which he removed upon his retirement in 1901.

Previous to his coming to the United States, Mr. Brockmann married Miss Eliza Hagen, November 1, 1865. Three children were born to this union: Hugo, of Princeton township, who married Emma Koch and has three children, Mamie, Hilda and Viola; Carl, a resident of Hickory Grove township, who married Laura Meyer and has three children, Lona, Mildred and Arnold; and Meta, who is now Mrs. Herman Holtz and has a daughter, Wilma.

Mr. Brockmann’s success has come entirely through his own efforts and it has been considerable in view of the fact that he came to America with no capital. Nothing is more intimately associated with the prosperity of a nation than its agricultural interests and as a progressive and representative agriculturist he has added to the sum total of American well being.

Transcribed by Elaine Rathmann for the Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project

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